Customer Reviews

The Best Book of Spaceships

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I picked this book out from the huge selection of children's books at the National Air & Space Museum. It has some informative text and lots of attractive pictures. One especially nice thing is that it doesn't just show what spaceships look like but how they work. For example, it shows (better than some other books I've seen) the steps in a shuttle launch or a trip to the moon (it helped me explain to the kids where the lunar module is in the Saturn V, and how the astronauts got into it), and even an astronaut putting on her space suit. For the 4-7 crowd, it's great.

This book is wonderful. The illustrations are colorful and captions are interesting. It is sure to capture the attention of any child interested in space. It's laid out in a manner that holds the interest of my five year old, with a new topic being covered on each two-page spread. However, it includes enough technical information to keep my son interested for years to come.

The book covers how rockets, probes, satellites, and space shuttles work and what each is used for. It also details spaceships from the past, as well as modern ones.

In addition to covering spaceships, the book has sections on space suits, working in space, and space stations.

The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that it's simply a shortened version of the book, "My Book of Space (My Book of)" (which I unfortunately already owned when I purchased this book), written by the same author. Every page in "The Best Book of Spaceships" is included in "My Book of Space", but there are additional topics covered in the latter. So, I would recommend purchasing "My Book of Space (My Book of)" instead, especially considering they are priced very similarly. If you do decide to buy this book, just be sure not to buy "My Book of Space" down the road.

I have a 3 1/2 year old Son who has watch the last 2 space shuttles take off. In searching my library system, I discovered this book. After checking it out serveral times, I decided to just buy the book because I'm tired of renewing the check-out and waiting for it to come back to the library. It's kind of fun watching his imagination with spaceships take off from this book (Everything that is not a spaceship or a rocket is now a spaceship or a rocket). I have seen other books in the library on space, but nothing with images that caputre the attention of my son. Everytime I come home with this book, his eyes light up and he starts flipping though the pages.

bought this book for my 3 yr old grandson. HE LOVED IT. the book is written well for the younger as well as an older child. The illistrations are well done. So there is a lot for them to see. We had a very good interactive experience with this book.

The book itself is totally fine, but we ordered it together with another book by the same author, called "My Book of Space", and 90% of the pages are the exact same. It's bogus for an author to make two separate titles with the same book, and bogus for Amazon to sell both unless it has an obvious disclosure that the books are totally redundant. Amazon shouldn't even let you put both in your cart unless you click to agree that the books are the same.

Perfect for young people who are smitten with Space Travel. My 3 year old loves it and asks great questions about what he's heard.

Great and very interesting book with lots of facts about space shuttles, clothes in space, journey to the moon etc. Great pictures as well!!
My 4 and 6 year olds just love to read it - over and over again (-:

The book was full of details and information about spaceships that met the needs of a 7 year old boy. Very nice!

I bought this for my son (soon to be four). The text is a bit complicated for him now, but he loves looking at the very realistic illustrations. It gives me the chance to explain to him all sorts of things about outer space, astronauts and space ships. He looks at it for long lengths of time by himself, too. Great book!

I purchased this book for Christmas (as well as a spaceship floor puzzle) and my 4 year old loves this book. He can spend hours looking at the pictures and then more hours having us read him details. The pictures are beautiful and colorful.
I would recommend this book for anyone into spaceships, rocket ships, etc. I even enjoyed it myself. I think it is also great on the educational scale. My son takes this book to bed with him and hugs it like it is his baby. I'm glad I purchased the hardcover! They may have to come out with a board book of this book if he keeps this up! It has also encouraged his imagination on space and space travel. Great book!